A Santa Cruz police officer went undercover on Thursday, Feb. 11, to nab a suspected bike thief after the stolen bike was put up for sale on Craigslist.org. Police arrested 21-year-old Jordan Scott for possession of stolen property—a $4,000 mountain bike belonging to someone in San Luis Obispo. The bike’s owner had located the bike on the Santa Cruz area Craigslist and alerted police. An officer contacted Scott posing as an interested buyer; when they met up, he arranged to buy the bike, then notified uniformed officers, who moved in and “arrested Scott without incident,” according to a press release issued by the Santa Cruz Police Department.
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